No, asm is not intimidating, it's irrelevant for some people. I guess my point is not to be so close minded and arrogant as to thinking you could possibly know

No, asm is not intimidating, it's irrelevant for some people. I guess my point is not to be so close minded and arrogant as to thinking you could possibly know what is and what is not important to someone's job, and dictate how people should do things. As well as thinking there is only one true way of doing things. Again you learn how computer works in computer architecture class, you learn programming already know that, or not, if it's irrelevant to your learning goals. You don't design programming languages to teach how computer works, nor do you learn programming to learn how computer works, that makes zero sense.